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Are any of my Goodreads friends also on Storygraph?

"I've been Black all over the world and I always knew what that meant. Not welcomed anywhere and yet there ain't no where else to go."

Meh. If I finish it this weekend, cool; if not, I probably won't.

Know where it's going; hoping it gets there faster.

Rereading for book club

Eh. I'll finish for book club; otherwise, I would have stopped sooner.

"You want freedom and they give you chicken korma."

"Any man who has the ability to read a newspaper cannot have the will to throw himself between you and your assassin's bullet," said Brigadier TM.

"The fumbling failure of that first night, he knew, had resulted in a marriage in which his authority was never fully established. Twenty-three years later, the morning after his midnight coup, he knew the meaning of the proverb. He intended to kill the cat, bury it and hoist his flag over its grave. He just wasn't quite sure how he would go about it."

"Anybody who breaks down at the sheer volume of this should stay in his little village and tend his father's goats or should study biology and become a doctor and then they can have all the bloody peace and quiet they want. Because as a soldier, noise is the first thing you learn to defend yourself against, and as an officer noise is the first weapon of attack you learn to use."

I'm intrigued.

What the hell? I had to check, twice, that the author was Black.

Halfway. Not a fan of how Darren is being portrayed, well no, not of Darren. He's too smart too have been taken in early and too street to have not knocked the block off Clyde by this point. Looking for a job at 16, I walked out of a CutCo MLM job interview before the first question was asked cause I could smell the BS. But, the valedictorian manager ran headlong into it? I don't buy it.

If anyone else had recommended this book, I may have stopped already, but I'm trying to see it through.

Hands would have been thrown several times by now.

Think I'm tapping out. I'm a fourth in and it's been woefully light on vampires.